Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Access to current content from IEEE Xplore.
- The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in eligible IEEE journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.
Agreement period: 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026
Participating members:
- Dublin City University
- Maynooth University
- Technological University Dublin
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- University College Dublin
- University of Galway
- University of Limerick
Publisher page: https://institutions.open.ieee.org/for-institutions-funders/institutional-partners/
Journals included for OA publishing:
- all IEEE hybrid journals and fully open access journals. Selected subscription-only publications (mainly magazines) are excluded. See the IEEE journal title list
- or see our list of eligible journals in all IReL open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.
Eligible authors:
- The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time the article is accepted for publication. The corresponding author must ensure their correct affiliation details are known to the publisher at this time.
- Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by participating members.
Eligible article types: Original Research articles.
OA publishing license: choice of a CC-BY or CC-BY NC-ND license. Authors sign a non-exclusive license to publish with the publisher.
OA quota per year: Allocated across the participating institutions on a first-come-first-served basis. Based on modelling in late 2023, we project that this allocation will meet demand for all eligible articles during the agreement’s term:
- 2024: 230 articles
- 2025: 220 articles
- 2026: 210 articles
Further information: